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There are 3 lanes where the primary action for Summoner's Rift takes
place - one that runs along the left and top sides; one that runs along
the bottom and right sides; and one that goes right down the middle. If
you're confused about where to go, wait for minions to spawn from one of
your inhibitors and follow the minions.

I has a tip. When laning against enemies easily harassed or killed or are just very over defensive you can either force them out of their turtling or gimp them by only hitting minions for the very last hit instead of hitting them when it won't kill them. This will make your minions push forward slower and cause their minions to kill yours more often therefore draining people sitting to far back of experience and gold. When they try going for a last hit or get in the experience range (about half the screen) you can harass them out of it. This will in turn make them play aggressive and get possible deaths or leech them of experience and gold gimping them later in the game.

I has a tip. When laning against enemies easily harassed or killed or are just very over defensive you can either force them out of their turtling or gimp them by only hitting minions for the very last hit instead of hitting them when it won't kill them. This will make your minions push forward slower and cause their minions to kill yours more often therefore draining people sitting to far back of experience and gold. When they try going for a last hit or get in the experience range (about half the screen) you can harass them out of it. This will in turn make them play aggressive and get possible deaths or leech them of experience and gold gimping them later in the game.

There is an item shop next to your team's shrine - left click to open
it.

When starting the game, it's generally good to purchase some health
regeneration - you can buy a permanent item like Regrowth Pendant or
Rejuvenation Bead from the Defense/Health Regeneration tab, or Health
Potions from the consumable tab.

There are 3 lanes where the primary action for Summoner's Rift takes
place - one that runs along the left and top sides; one that runs along
the bottom and right sides; and one that goes right down the middle. If
you're confused about where to go, wait for minions to spawn from one of
your inhibitors and follow the minions.

Try to split your team evenly among the 3 lanes.

To learn an ability, click the "+" above it.

To gain gold from killing minions, you have to cause the killing blow,
or 'last hit' the minion.

Destroying enemy turrets gives your entire team gold and experience,
even if dead, so try to help your team destroy turrets as quickly as you
can.

Destroying an enemy inhibitor temporarily causes your minions to be
stronger, but the enemy's inhibitor will respawn after a few minutes.

Turrets are very powerful - make sure you have plenty of support when
approaching an enemy turret. Conversely, when being attacked, retreat
to a turret for more support.

Attacking an enemy champion will cause all nearby units to attack you,
including turrets!

Even enemy minions deal a lot of damage early in the game, so try to use
your own minions to shield you from taking damage.

You can always go home if you want to - press 7 to teleport to your
team's Spawning Pool. It will take a few seconds to take effect, and it
can be interrupted by enemies!

Every champion has a passive ability that you always have, even if you
didn't level it up. You can view its details by pressing 'C'.

Ability power increases the damage and healing your abilities cause; it
does not benefit attacks or buffs.
Some abilities benefit from other stats like Attack Damage, but
only if specified in the tooltip.

Feel free to ask any question you like, and if appropriate, I will add it to the list.